A brilliant man started a gofundme campaign to have a parade and get together for Browns fans at the Cleveland Browns stadium to celebrate a perfect losing 0-13 season. He was trying to raise $10,000. Excedrin donated $7,000 to get him over the $10,000 mark. Yay, Excedrin. If, perchance, they do win a game, the money will be donated to the local food bank.

The expression on my face upon first read through: Furrowed brow, narrowed eyes as I lean in closer to the computer screen because I can't quite grasp what I'm reading. I shake my head and mutter, "What the..."

This sounds like so much fun! I have my fourth eye surgery on the 26th, so may not be able to do this, but I hope to. I love writing to prompts! Even though this group’s talent with twists is hard to beat, I love the brain exercise that constraints impose!

But really, who thinks of these twisted evil things? Oh, okay, she really does? Sorry, didn’t mean to offend!

Mr. Frain beat me to it. I was going to complain about Sherry having an advantage with her four eyes... :)

You know I'm in. Of course! Can't resist a juicy writing challenge. :D And I like the idea of us completing other people's stories, but that might get a little complicated. However you want to work it, Mighty QOTKU! I'm on board.

Four tiny stories that add together to make a bigger story using the prompt words? No, it's too hard. And I'm busy. And it's too many days to commit. I should be concentrating all my writing time and energy on my WIP, because this huge word puzzle with only half the clues up front is bound to eat up a lot of time.

I anticipate this will produce some very silly stories. Although it can't possibly be as silly (or chaotic) as that time I rounded up all my Imaginary Internet Friends and convinced them to go blog caroling on Christmas Eve . . . no one could keep all the words straight then, either.

Sharkooge...Are you rubbing your fins together with anticipation of knowing that there will be people on Christmas eve & Christmas scribbling and revising instead of spending time with Tiny Tots & family???

Uh-oh...the Ghost of good Queries past, The Ghost of Slush piles present, and of course, the Ghost of "WHY DID I NOT SIGN THEM-ITS A BEST SELLER!!!" future may be coming to visit soon... :D

So do we lump all our stories together for each subsequent round, or make Janet go hunt for our previous parts like a huge digital jigsaw puzzle? I sorta like the idea of returning all this holiday anguish. *evil chuckle*

This makes me wish I had an mp3 (audio) file of evil cackling to listen to when I read your blog. If you know of one, please post a link. Or better yet, if you know of a video (mp4 or mpg) file that has the cackling sound effect and a pair of painted lips like the ones at the beginning of the movie ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, post that for sure. Then we can make it audiovisual.

I guess if someone misses a day they're out of the grand prize, but are they still eligible to win that round? Can you participate in days 1 and 3 and win on day 3, despite missing day 2? Would you have to fill in day 2 when doing your day 3 entry?

Do you have to end each entry on a complete sentence, or can we end mid-sentence?

Can I change the end piece of punctuation when I start the next round? Can I change any of the other punctuation as long as I keep the words in order?

I feel less confined by the prompt words and much more confined by the challenges this will pose to editing. For me the flash fic comes together in the edits.

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